What were the strengths and challenges of teaching and learning in a transdisciplinary manner?
Teachers observed some changes in student perceptions of languages learning. Bringing in skills and processes (e.g. IT [information technology] skills, reflective skills, inquiry skills) from other learning areas adds more depth to the subject. Taking the language into other areas lessens the restrictive perceptions that students place on LOTE learning. Some felt that more authentic contexts for learning were created. We were able to see students making links across subjects. It gave students a context for learning the language. It was quite different from what we have done in the past. It was good to put LOTE into a bigger context. It made me feel more able to justify our existence to others and myself. It was good to see it in a different context. In LOTE classes I was able to keep referring back to what we were doing in English and SOSE [Studies of society and environment] and how it fits into other work. Isolation and marginalisation were reduced. [We]… had a better understanding a
